YouTube Red costs $10 a month for ad-free viewing, music streaming, and downloads. Tech-savvy teens can get these free with ad blockers and download tools, so the service mainly appeals to older users. Creators might see a modest earnings boost if YouTube splits Red revenue 55/45 like it does ads, but the service probably won't become a major income source.
YouTube Red offers ad-free services? What am I gonna do? I can't live without— ahaha. So YouTube recently announced that they're gonna be coming out with YouTube Red, which is a monthly subscription thing you can pay. It's $10 a month, and you can have no ads on your video, you can, like, stream unlimited music, and the third one was— what was it? You can download YouTube videos. 3, like, really basic services for $10 a month times that by 12, that's $120 a year. Okay, I don't have $120 a year to throw at a service. I pay all these monthly fees for like, you know, Netflix, I used to for Xbox Live. There's a lot of things I'm already charged for monthly, and the last thing I need to do is throw another $10 at something. And I'm just, I'm gonna be real with you guys, okay? The 3 things it's offering, no ads on my computer, you know, their ad blocker. Anyone with a brain can get ad blocker. On mobile for YouTube, there's no way currently to block an ad or no easy way, so yeah, that's the only thing you're getting from that. The unlimited music, Pandora, if you don't like the ads on Pandora, there are literally thousands of ways to download songs for free and get unlimited free songs. So yeah, that, I don't really find that useful. And I already know how to download YouTube videos on my phone and on my computer. So literally, if I was to buy this, it would be for no ads on my phone. And to be honest, the ads I see on my phone are literally 10 to 15 seconds. That's not worth $10 a month for me or $120 a year. So I think, I think this service they're releasing, YouTube Red, is not gonna be that useful for your typical teen who actually knows how to use technology, who's actually up to date with this type of stuff, but for someone who's a little bit older who doesn't know how to download videos on mobile so they can watch it, or mobile so they can watch it in their car, someone who doesn't know how to get Adblock on their computer, someone who doesn't know how to get free music or know what Pandora is or something like that, then I think this service might be of use to them, but I really don't see that many people my age being able to blow $10 a month on this for stuff, you know, you can pretty much do for free. But let's talk about how this will affect content creators. Let's say all goes to plan and, you know, millions of people sign up for this. Will it affect content creators' earnings? 'Cause essentially, once you buy that, you see no ads. That's how YouTubers make their money is through ads. Well, let's just, let's be realistic here, okay? For someone to make YouTube $10 per month, or $10 a month through watching ads, they'd have to watch thousands of videos, okay? Because you're paying $10 a month to have no ads. If you were to subtract that and actually watch ads, you would make YouTube nowhere near $10 a month. YouTube is getting a lot more money if you actually sign up through this service. You're making YouTube far more money because very few people are YouTube addicts like me and actually watch that many videos per month. And YouTube's gonna make a lot more money out of you if you sign up for this service. And YouTube, with ad revenue, they take 45%, they give 55% to the content creator. So if YouTube does the same thing with this, that means they keep $4.50 a month, they give $5.50 to the content creator. It will help you, okay? Because very few people actually watch enough videos per month that YouTube would make $10, and through this service, they're getting $10 out of that person, and if they give a little over half of that, like they do with the ad revenue, to the content creators, like they say they're going to, it will give you a significant boost in your earnings. It will really give you a huge boost, especially because they're gonna be paying you and that person, you know, could have been using ad blocker or sometimes YouTube just doesn't show an ad. So I think personally, they're gonna be true to their word and it is actually going to give you huge boost. 'Cause let's be real, YouTube's not gonna try to screw you out of money, okay? They're not gonna try to lie to you. They may have a monopoly on this, but I think YouTube has good intentions in mind with this service. I don't think they're trying to screw anyone out of money. I think content creators are gonna make more money the more people that buy this and YouTube. It's gonna help both of us. I think that's, you know, I just, that's what I think. Take it as you want. But the last thing I wanna say is I was watching the YouTube Red video, had a ton of dislikes, and typically us people on YouTube, we just, we don't like change, okay? Whenever YouTube released this new comment section, which I actually like, we were all freaking out and I was freaking out a couple months ago. We were like, "Oh, this sucks. Go back to the old comment section." Have you seen the old comment section? That is a piece of crap, okay? It had 2 top comments, and literally those 2 top comments were peop— my dog's barking, ignore that— where people would leave a comment saying, "Hey, check out my channel," and then sign into like 50 accounts, vote it up so they got 2 top comments, and then, you know, just spam would sit up there unless the YouTube person who uploaded the video deleted them. People would just thumbs up their own spam like that. The new comment section, you can't do that. It won't really work. That's why you don't see as much spam. And, uh, comment section. So, uh, we freaked out about that even though it was an improvement, and people are freaking out about this, but I think it is also an improvement. We just typically don't like change on YouTube. Um, you know, most people don't like change in the real world either. It's just how things are. I think at first you're going to get a bad reaction out of people, but then over time, like the new comment section, you'll grow to like it, and then it'll just become normal. And, uh, that's my opinion. Like I said, I don't think the service is going to be as big as they're projecting it to be. Because if you're a teen like me, you can do all this stuff already for free except for the no ads on mobile, and that's not worth $120 a year. Just my opinion. Let me know what you think, and, um, it's the video.
